by Richard A » Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:38 pm
Oh she is a great loss! I was a fan of the Seekers in my youth - and Judith Durham was always their star. And though no Australian, I thought that "I Am Australian" was a great alternative anthem, with the first verse focusing on the Aboriginals, or First Nations as I gather they now prefer to call themselves: "For 40,000 years I've been the first Australian" - at a time when the official anthem was still proclaiming that Australia was a young country. And the line "And from all the lands on earth we come" shows a perspective that Australian governments haven't always appeared to share!
RIP indeed.